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original acrylic on canvas painting
13 x 20 inches, approximately 33 x 51cm
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This is a one of a kind original, so the colours on your screen may differ a little from the paint itself. It is sent rolled in a tube and arrives unframed, so allow for framing or stretching when you plan the wall.
Open air markets across West Africa are run largely by women, who buy, sell and move the stock, and carrying a loaded tray or basin on the head leaves both hands free for the work. That is the ordinary scene here, painted without ceremony. The artist has not named the market, and the painting does not ask you to place it. The figures are deliberately anonymous, which is what lets it read as any market rather than one particular stall.
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An original acrylic painting on canvas, 13 by 20 inches, showing three market women seen from behind, one with a tray of produce balanced on her head. Not one face is shown. The artist paints the women from the back, in deep browns against a haze of violet, grey and yellow, so what you read is the walk and the load rather than a portrait. The figures further off dissolve into a few marks of red and green, which is how a busy market actually looks when you are standing in it. The clothes carry all the colour: a yellow top, a rose wrapper, a red blouse, a green skirt and a band of turquoise, laid on thickly so the ridges catch the light. It is painted in acrylic on canvas and signed Lexis in the lower right. The artist sends it rolled in a tube, so it arrives unframed and ready for the frame or stretcher you choose. Hang it out of direct sunlight and dust it with a dry soft brush. At 13 by 20 inches it suits a narrow wall, a hallway, or a space beside a bookcase where a larger canvas would crowd. If you have the wall for something bigger, the artist has larger originals on Sokofa.
Alex Mensah | Contemporary African Artist 🎨 Original paintings inspired by African life 📍Accra, Ghana 🌍 Worldwide shipping 🖼 Originals and prints upon request , available for commissioned works
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